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Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by forinti »

elektrontamer wrote: post #259

I once installed an Ubuntu 17 on an old desktop and my mother used it just fine. Most people don't need Windows. It's just that it comes with anything you buy and most people won't learn something new unless forced to. And to be fair why should they? They don't mind the extra cost and couldn't care less about our oss. We need to get them when they're young and impressionable and turn them into little linux evangelist…

I did the same thing for my mother in law, because other family members kept installing trash on her PC.

Such was the success, that my sister in law started using LibreOffice and quite likes it.

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Post by Gordonjcp »

DeathArrow wrote: post #274
taneliv wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heavily doubt that those would make people switch. Maaaybe, if their social circle already uses Linux. However, make the next Minecraft, Fortnite or Roblox work only (or considerably better) on Linux desktop[ ], and you will suddenly gain a lot more new users. Some of whom will stick around, since all their other apps work the same in the browser. [ ] Whatever that term means, even the article makes a distinction bet…

>However, make the next Minecraft, Fortnite or Roblox work only (or considerably better) on Linux desktop And lose lots of money in that process. :) And what Linux OS should you target? Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Arch, Android? Target KDE or Gnome? Or maybe XFCE? X Windows or Wayland? Use ALSA, Pipewire or Pulse Audio? Bionic or glibc?

> And what Linux OS should you target?

Linux is an OS.

It doesn't matter which distro you pick, because they're all the same.

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Post by zambal »

bruce511 wrote: post #201
vasco wrote: post #160

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> They currently have around 20% market share (as Internet servers - Extremely big doubts about this. How would anyone even know? All the hyperscale datacenters built by FAANG must be 99.9% Linux, and those DCs alone would probably be enough to make 20% impossible to hit for windows.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_sys... (Scroll down to servers) Incidentally this is public facing Internet servers. The % -inside- enterprises us much much higher. Tools like Active Directory allow you to scale enterprise operations, which is important for companies that have hundreds-of-thousands of desktops etc. In any event your estimate of 99.9% is unlikely. AWS offers Windows based…

> Incidentally this is public facing Internet servers. The % -inside- enterprises us much much higher.

I can believe private enterprise usage is higher, but I imagine FAANG and similar companies also have quite a lot non public Linux servers. Not trying to rebut your overall point, but I'm not sure the total non public % is much different.

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Post by aembleton »

laserbeam wrote: post #34

Every once in a while I'm tempted to switch back to Linux (I used to have that as my desktop between 10 and 15 years ago), but then I remember: - My DJ software (which I pay for) is not supported at all on Linux (likewise true for most common music production software). - The Affinity suite (which I paid for) is not supported on Linux. - The best debugger I can find (remedybg, which I paid for) doesn't work there. -…

You also can't use uBO if you want to help get it to 4% as this data comes from statcounter which is blocked in many filter lists. I run linux but my browser useage won't count towards it.

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Post by goodcanadian »

DeathArrow wrote: post #261
laserbeam wrote: post #34

Every once in a while I'm tempted to switch back to Linux (I used to have that as my desktop between 10 and 15 years ago), but then I remember: - My DJ software (which I pay for) is not supported at all on Linux (likewise true for most common music production software). - The Affinity suite (which I paid for) is not supported on Linux. - The best debugger I can find (remedybg, which I paid for) doesn't work there. -…

Me, too. I tried to use Linux on the desktop since 2000. I can't run the software I need like Visual Studio, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, 3ds Max. I don't care free/libre about alternatives as they are not doing the same. The OS takes time to be configured, managed, there are always things breaking and needing a fix. I still have a linux distro installed on a spare drive but haven't booted it in more than an yea…

I want an OS that just runs and doesn't stay in my way.

YMMV. For me, Linux is the OS that just runs and doesn't stay in my way. For my work flows, the tools on Linux are far superior. I recognise that may not be the case for the tools you use.

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Post by bmitc »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #49

I wonder why they keep making these articles. Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS. It is on virtually all servers on the Internet, the majority OS on phones, its in many TVs and STBs and streaming sticks, its one of the few OSes ever in space, its one of the few OSes ever on Mars, and it is also the OS behind ChromeOS (which that article mistakenly b…

> Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS.

Is there a source for that?

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Post by sokoloff »

rhn_mk1 wrote: post #235
blooalien wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that Linux is the kernel. Anything beyond that is "UserSpace"/"distro".

For careless usage, "Linux" means Linux distro .

In a world where literally can also mean figuratively, Linux can also mean the distro.

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Post by sombragris »

sersi wrote: post #65

Seems that this website blocks any access from HK completely through cloudflare... Cloudflare making it easy to block entire countries, allow people to be lazy in protecting their websites and goes completely against the open web. Of course I could use a vpn but it's getting tiring that I have to do so more and more often.

Blocked from Paraguay, too.

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Post by wraptile »

jacknews wrote: post #283
actualwitch wrote: post #276

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> why can't I change the spaces animation (turn it off)? You can turn on "reduce motion" and it will replace it with a much simpler fade in.

Sure, but that affects other things too - why can't I just turn this one annoying animation off completely?

That's what killed Macos for me. What's the point of all that hardware if everything has 0.5 second delay - it's ridiculous.

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Post by [deleted] »

resolutebat wrote: post #293
jacquesm wrote: post #236

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> What stung before was that people were forced to use Windows because of lock-ins, software compatibility, etc. That doesn’t really exist any more. That's a funny conclusion to make. In the business world that still exists and even my kids are forced into the Microsoft eco-system by their school because the software they insist you run (for which perfectly good web alternatives exist) only runs on windows.

True, but increasingly marginal. Many schools have adopted Chromebooks (Linux in disguise) and even the MS Office suite has largely moved online.

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